Blasting the continuum of history: Walter Benjamin’s “Now-Time” and the recovery of experience

Abstract: This paper analyses the concept of “nowtime” (Jetztzeit) in Walter Benjamin’s “On the concept of history.” It shows its centrality in Benjamin’s philosophy of history, by defining it in opposition to two elements of Kantian philosophy: on the one hand, “empty, homogeneous time,” on...

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Autor principal: Torbidoni, Juan
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filosofía, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia 2022
Materias:
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
FILOSOFIA DE LA HISTORIA
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/15420
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topic Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
FILOSOFIA DE LA HISTORIA
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
spellingShingle Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
FILOSOFIA DE LA HISTORIA
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Torbidoni, Juan
Blasting the continuum of history: Walter Benjamin’s “Now-Time” and the recovery of experience
topic_facet Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
FILOSOFIA DE LA HISTORIA
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
description Abstract: This paper analyses the concept of “nowtime” (Jetztzeit) in Walter Benjamin’s “On the concept of history.” It shows its centrality in Benjamin’s philosophy of history, by defining it in opposition to two elements of Kantian philosophy: on the one hand, “empty, homogeneous time,” on the other, the faith in the infinite, inevitable progress of a generic “mankind.” It argues that the notions of now-time and truth as flitting hark back to Benjamin’s early concern about the devaluation of experience in modern philosophy and the need to rescue the ephemeral as a decisive element in metaphysics. Rather than a historical category, now-time denotes an instance of redemption.
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title Blasting the continuum of history: Walter Benjamin’s “Now-Time” and the recovery of experience
title_short Blasting the continuum of history: Walter Benjamin’s “Now-Time” and the recovery of experience
title_full Blasting the continuum of history: Walter Benjamin’s “Now-Time” and the recovery of experience
title_fullStr Blasting the continuum of history: Walter Benjamin’s “Now-Time” and the recovery of experience
title_full_unstemmed Blasting the continuum of history: Walter Benjamin’s “Now-Time” and the recovery of experience
title_sort blasting the continuum of history: walter benjamin’s “now-time” and the recovery of experience
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